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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Info wanted on new IBM vide card hacks.
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.103306.29343@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 10:33:06 GMT
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   While browsing through a recent issue of Computer Shopper, I came across
an ad for something that looks interesting at the very least.  The ad is
for an ordinary VGA card that comes equipped with something called the 
"Edsun CEG DAC".  From the ad, this replacement DAC chip gives VGA cards 
a resolution of 2048x1536 and 700,000+ colors "on a standard VGA monitor."

   My question is, how can something like this possibly be achieved on a
standard VGA monitor, and with ordinary VGA cards with 1M of video RAM?  
This thing is obviously some sort of anti-aliasing hack, but I'd like 
some information on how this thing works.
  
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